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The more I use LLMs to code, the farther I stray from the joy of coding.

I won't regurgitate the common sentiment of it being like pair programming with an oddly spiky profile junior engineer savant. I find my emotions being activated too often in having to recontextualize or reign in or re-orient or repeat.

If I wrote code that doesn't work, that is on me. If I have to read code that doesn't work, I didn't write it, and it's veracity or accuracy are only uncoverable by me - but are already being treated as gospel by my AI peer, and the LLM keeps asserting issues with "my" code that I don't yet feel I have ownership over because I have not ingested it fully is supremely tiring. The whiplash feels almost like an abusive relationship.

I want to get back to feeling accomplished once finished with a coding session, not like I just went through a kafkaesque ringer.

parent datameta 1 year ago

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